Record Indsustry Reports Continued Decline In 2008

Each week HipHopDX runs a list of the previous week's top-selling albums. While artists and record labels will always use album sales as the barometer of their efforts behind the scenes, the early figures for 2008 prove what many analysts predicted all along: fewer people are buying physical albums. June serves as the midpoint for the calendar year, and so far Nielsen SoundScan shows physical album sales at 206.4 million units. That number is an 11 percent drop from last year's figures.

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